Accelerate Your Server Performance with SSD RAID Arrays

Kingston and Microchip Technology have completed joint SSD and RAID/Host Bus Adapter solution interoperability testing that delivers high performance for server storage.

SSDs and RAID

SSDs are becoming popular performance upgrades for notebooks, desktops, and workstations and are praised for their speed and durability. Data center SSDs offer additional tremendous gains in server performance when SSDs are grouped together into RAID arrays and presented to the host operating system as a single drive. RAID storage accomplishes three main objectives:

• Make individual disk drives redundant using hot-spares or RAID levels with redundancy, so that even a single point of failure would not have an impact on data integrity.
• Increase the I/O performance of the storage. There are several RAID levels available that offer different levels of redundancy, performance, and usable capacity.
• SSDs fully saturate the maximum possible performance and remove any bottlenecks seen with traditional hard drives.

While, historically, RAID was created to manage and mitigate risks associated with HDD storage, its data protection benefits are still relevant today with SSDs, enabling users to get the benefits of the high read/write speeds and transfer rates that SSDs offer. Particularly important when rebuilding after a system failure, which is significantly faster on SSDs, leading to shorter rebuild times, faster restoring of the performance/functionality of the array.

The Adaptec Smart Storage RAID and Host Bus Adapters offer significant power savings when compared to prior generations and significant power advantages versus competing solutions, resulting in the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for an HBA/basic RAID solution. They deliver a robust and scalable solution that can handle the toughest system workloads and configurations and are a perfect match for Kingston’s Enterprise SSDs.

What’s more, Microchip’s maxCache caching technology{{Footnote.A63647}}, enables a tiered storage approach, where an existing traditional HDD-based server storage system can be optimized by adding Kingston SSDs as caching pool to accelerate application performance.

Performance increase is achieved by keeping frequently accessed data in a pool of SSDs rather than traditional HDDs, which brings benefits to read-intensive and write-intensive applications.

Kingston’s Enterprise SATA 3.0 and NVMe Data Center (DC) SSDs are designed with a stringent set of development requirements and a thorough testing process. This results in consistency for workloads requiring a balance of high random read-and-write IOPS performance. Power-fail features keep mission-critical environments up and running all day, every day.

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